Kleinmond Stories


Restitution

We left the Grail this morning and stopped over at Mthimkulu Village on the way out. It was really stunning to see the work there that they had just begun last December shortly after they acquired the property. It is a former Jewish retreat center. They have a big warehouse where their plans for selling and distributing fynbos will happen. They ...


NEVER GIVE UP

The next two Sundays we will be on the road traveling (to and from the safari) so this Sunday (Father's Day here in South Africa as well as back in the U.S.) we decided to head to worship at the JL Zwane Presbyterian Church and Centre in the township of Gugulethu in Cape Town. We drove for about an hour and got there about half an hour before worship s...


Poinsettias are a Pentecost Flower

Saturday morning we all got moving late. Conor didn’t get up until after 10. Around 9:45 we heard the dogs erupt in a loud fight. I figured a neighboring dog had wandered into the Grail Centree and started a fight, with the dogs here. I was wrong. About five minutes later Ann was knocking at our front door. “Did you see the Baboons,” she asked. N...


The Grail

On Mother’s Day we went to see the musical Spam-a-lot at the Murat in Indianapolis. It is about the quest for the Holy Grail. Now here we are staying at the Grail Centre in Kleinmond, South Africa. Many people ask us what our journey to South Africa is about (people here in South Africa and people back in the United States!). Part of it is the desir...